Dennis Arundell
Dennis Drew Arundell OBE[1] (22 July 1898 in Finchley, London – 10 December 1988 in Camden, London[2]) was a British actor, librettist, opera scholar, translator, producer, director, conductor and composer of incidental music.[3]
Life and career
Arundell's studies at
After the Second World War Arundell concentrated on opera – as producer, translator, teacher, and historian. Among translations from this period were
He directed a revival of The Bohemian Girl at Covent Garden in 1951 with Beecham conducting, following this with the same conductor the first production of Irmelin at the New Theatre in Oxford in 1953.[4]
He also worked as a producer for Australian Opera and the Finnish National Theatre and Opera, and was head of opera at the Royal College of Music from 1959 to 1973.
Arundell's publications include an edition of Congreve's text for Semele (1925), Dryden and Howard (1929), The Critic at the Opera (1957), and The Story of Sadler's Wells (1965, 2nd edition 1978). He gave lectures at the Society of Theatre Research, broadcast regularly, was a member of the Purcell Society, and wrote for Opera magazine.[3]
Selected filmography
- The Show Goes On (1937)
- Glamour Girl (1938)
- "Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
- Penn of Pennsylvania (1941)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
- The Echo Murders (1945)
- The Man from Morocco (1945)
- Meet Sexton Blake(1945)
- The End of the River (1947)
References
- ^ Sometimes referred to as Dennis Drew Arundel (Jacobs, New Grove Opera).
- ^ "Arundell, Dennis" at the British Film Institute
- ^ a b c d e Milnes, Rodney. Obituary – Dennis Arundell. Opera, February 1989, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 148–149.
- ^ a b Jacobs, Arthur. Dennis Arundell. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan Reference Limited, London & New York, 1997.
External links
- Dennis Arundell at IMDb
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